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The disclosures most damaging to Royalty in France have been effected by the medium of a new publication, La Revue Retrospective, established by M. Taschereau for the special purpose of putting forth papers discovered in the Tuileries after Louis Philippe's flight. The first number contains documents relating to M. Blanqui, a member of the Republican party; the second, documents touching the Spanish marriages. The documents re- lating to the case of M. Libri, previously published, belong to the same series.

The most important revelation is a very long letter, dated the 14th Sep- tember 1846, by King Louis Philippe to his daughter the Queen of the Belgians; in his own hand, and covered with erasures and corrections. It is virtually a reply to a letter that Queen Amelie had received from Queen Victoria; of which Louis Philippe says, "I am inclined to believe that our good little Queen was as sorry to write such a letter as I was to receive it."

" But she now only sees things through the spectacles of Lord Palmerston, and those spectacles distort and disfigure them too often. This is quite natural. The great difference between the spectacles of the excellent Aberdeen and those of Lord Palmerston proceeds from the difference of their dispositions. Lord Aberdeen wished to be well with his friends: Lord Palmerston, I fear, wishes to 5narrel with them. This is, my dear Louise, that which caused my alarm respecting the maintenance of our cordial understanding when Lord Palmerston resumed the direction of the Foreign Office. Our good Queen Victoria sought to dispel these alarms, and assured me that there would only be a change of men. But my old experience induced me to apprehend that, through the influence of the disposition of-Lord Palmerston, much more perhaps than his intentions, the political system of England would undergo a modification, gradual or sudden; and, unfortunately, the affairs of Spain have afforded an opportunity. "In the first moment that followed the perusal of the letter of Queen Victoria, I was tempted to write to her directly ; and I even began a letter to appeal to her heart and recollections, and demand to be judged by her equitably, and, above all, more affectionately: but the fear of embarrassing her stopped me; and I prefer writing to you, to whom I can say everything, to unive you all the explanations necessary to 'replace the things in their true light' He proceeds with an immensely long explanation, how he had uniformly efused thrones for his sons—Greece, Belgium, and Portugal; how he did not wish either of his sons to marry the Queen of Spain; how "the mili- tary successes of all my sons" created a considerable demand for them in Spain, especially for Aumale, but he remained firm; how ho concluded to limit the choice of candidates for Queen Isabella's hand to the descendants of Philip the Fifth, and Lord Aberdeen concurred; but how Lord Palmer- ston totally departed from that understanding, and introduced Prince Leo- pold of Coburg as the first candidate. Queen Christina had been worked upon by English agents to suggest that Prince, and " Bulwer " was " se- verely reprimanded " by Lord Aberdeen for his share of it. As to Mont- pensier, it had been arranged with Lord Aberdeen that he should marry the Infanta Luisa after Queen Isabella should have had a child; but when Queen Christina found Lord Palmerston encouraging the Progresistas, she became alarmed, flew to Paris, and insisted on the simultaneous marriage of the Queen and Infanta with the Duke of Cadiz and the Duke de Mont- pensier; to which Louis Philippe consented: "this," says he, "is my only deviation." " This family alliance suited me in every manner, and was equally agreeable to the Queen and all my family." But he emphatically disclaims all intention of interfering in the internal affairs of Spain; ex- pressing an anxious desire for the tranquillity of that country, and for the continued "friendship and confidence" of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. One passage in this explanation must be given in the King's own words-

" In September 1845, when Lord Aberdeen spoke to me for the first time, at the Chateau d'Eu, of the marriage of Montpensier with the Infanta, Queen Isa- bella IL, although fifteen years of age all but a month, was not marriageable; and I can assert with all sincerity that, as long as this state of the Queen's health continued, it would have been, even with Lord Aberdeen's observations, a com- plete obstacle to the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta her sister. But the Queen became marriageable in the course of the winter; and she being, according to the assurances that were given us, under the most favourable circumstances for the marriage state, nothing was left but to know whether the husband she might choose exhibited the best condition of virility. It seemed to me to be certain, from all the information, even of the most minute nature, taken upon this subject with regard to Don Francisco d'Assis, that he was in the re- quired condition, and that consequently there was every probability united for hoping that their marriage would not be without issue."

Several small notes interchanged about the same time between M. Guizot find the King, while they disclose no particular fact, illustrate the familiar terms on which the King and his Minister lived. The King begins one " My dear Minister," his usual form, and ends it, " Good night, my dear Minister." M. Guizot uses terms of profound respect, but makes his own appointments for interviews, and arranges everything with the confidence of a man that presumes the concurrence of another, whose plans he is work- ing with successful devotion.

Certain notes by M. do Salvandy display the most abject servility on the part of that arrogant and self-sufficient personage; who is always " laying" something at his Majesty's " feet." One commences-

" Sire, I have the honour to forward the [London] Standard to your Majesty. Sounder opinions could not be entertained. It is true they cannot be derived from better sources."

[The Standard disclaims the inference that it was retained for the French Government, or had used any " sources" but its own.] In another letter, the intellectual Salvandy confounds planets and Legionary crosses, ambition and science, mathematics, geometry, and the lack of " correct opinions," in the most instructive way: observe how the independent Minister of Instruction busies himself to seduce young men of merit and ability- " I venture to make a request on the subject of M. Leverrier, the admirable discoverer of planets; whose heart melts with. joy and gratitude for that officer's cross, which has produced the best effect with the public. Your Majesty has taught this young savant ambition. He aspires to the honour of being permitted to lay at the feet of your Majesty the expression of his gratitude and his over- powering sense of your favours. There are so few mathematicians or geometri- cians who entertain such correct sentiments, that 1 entreat your Majesty to con- sent to see him, either in the morning or the evening—earlier or later. Your Majesty will have achieved a conquest truly worthy of you."

The other set of documents begins with what appears to be the exami- nation of a person under arrest before the Minister of the Interior, in Oc- tober 1839; subsequent papers appear to be reports by the same person, written in a much more spontaneous manner. The first is retrospective, and relates to the attempt of Barbee and others in May 1839; the re- maining papers are contemporaneous, and disclose the names, organiza- tion, and plans of the Republican societies. At a meeting of one of the Paris clubs, last week, M. Blanqui avowed that these documents were his; but he said he could give an explanation, and demanded certain news- papers for the purpose. It has been awaited with some interest, but is not yet forthcoming. A strong feeling of anger prevails against M. Blanqui: he had been President of the Republican Society!

Commercial accounts from the most distant parts of Europe represent trade as being universally prostrated by the political disorders. We see the condition of France, her finances and trade quite disorganized, her Go- vernment resorting to the wildest expedients. In Belgium trade is stag- nant. Railway works have wholly ceased; and the glass-manufactories having completed their orders, are now doing nothing, having no fresh or- ders to execute. The number of workmen out of employment in Brussels is 18,000. Provisions are cheap. At Hamburg and Amsterdam, the rate of insurance, especially on Prussian vessels passing the Sound, has run up to a great height. English ships have the preference of freight in Prus- sian ports. At Berlin, failures follow each other in rapid succession. Smyrna, Constantinople, and the ports of the Black Sea, participate in the general European derangement. Freights are low, from the want of de- mand.

Prince Metternich has arrived at Amsterdam, and intends staying there and at the Hague for a week.

It may be stated for the information of foreigners, that no traveller, wheth erby steamer, railroad, or diligence, will now be admitted into Holland without a pass- port, hitherto not required—Times.

Royal trinkets are straying into unwonted quarters. The Nouvelliste de Flandres reports a discovery. "The police of our city [Brussels] has found at the house of a man named Van Doorne, in the Rue de la Bouverie, a little case containing dia- monds of the crown of France, of great value, but the precise value of which we do not know. Van Doorne went to Paris to work, abandoning his wife and chil- dren.. He returned from time to time to his wife, but only to squander all her savings in his absence: he at last left her. During the days of February Van Doorne was at Paris, and came back to Brussels in the month of ktareh. This time he bad money. He proposed to rejoin his ,s wife and said they would have the means of livmg in comfort. He was observed, also, to squander away much money. This was enough to excite the vigilance of the pohce. At tut Van Dooms, having offered to sell some diamonds, was arrested; and on a search made by the police at his lodging, the little case was found. Amongst the jewels was the eagle; from which some stones had been already extracted. Van Dome do, dares that he did not steal these jewels, but picked them up in the court of the Tuileries."

The same journal reports another detection—"A person having diamonds labia possession of the value of about 300,000 francs has been arrested by the Belem Customhouse-officers."

Intelligence has come to hand of the wreck of the Omega, an emigrant-ship, while on her passage from Liverpool to New York, with its frightful sequel. Be. sides the crew, there were 327 passengers on board. During a heavy. gale the vessel was much damaged, and became leaky. The Aurora, bound to St. John's, took off 140 people,. mostly women and children; • but seventy died of starvation before the vessel gained Halifax. The brig Barbara received 163 passengers, the surgeon, and part of the crew. The British bark Highland Mary took the re- mainder; but the second mate and four seamen perished in the pinnace while eh_ deavouring to gain the Highland Mary: this vessel safely made New York. The Barbara's fate was less fortunate: she was short of water, and the people suffered much from thirst. While nearing the land a steamer was met; to the request for water it was answered, "There is the land—go there and get it!" though the wind was blowing from the shore at the time. In the rough state of the wee, ther no pilots could be got; and in endeavouring to make St. John's harbour the ship struck. Some fifty people crawled on to the cliffs; but the ship rolling over, 115 men, women, and children, were drowned. Many who had got on shore perished from exhaustion and cold.

The church of St. Matthias, situate near the Borough Gaol in Liverpool, was utterly destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon. The fire originated in a cellar, apparently from the hot-air tubes. The church had been purchased in order that a railway station might be built on its site; and it is said the insurance had ex- pired on Saturday.

A Parliamentary return shows that during the last six months of 1847 the accidents on railways in the United Kingdom caused the death of 110 persons, besides 74 more or less hurt. The far greater number of the fatalities were the result of incautiousness or temerity in the victims. During the half-year the number of passengers was 31,734,607.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—

Number of Winter deaths. average

Zymotic Diseases

Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 43 69 Tubercular Diseases. 193 198 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses . 106 138

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 26 39

Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration... 176 225 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion . 63 62 Diseases of the Kidneys, Sc 14 9 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &c. 7 13 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, Se 8 8

Dibeases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c 2 1

Malformations 4 3 Premature Birth 21 23 Atrophy El 16 Age 34 79

Sudden s 15

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 18 31

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Total (including unspecified causes) 1008 1107

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 96.7° in the sun to 3L0° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being warmer than the mean average temperature by 5.8°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable.